The last part of this song is missing from the entry.
Anyway, the song seems clearly to be about the time limit we all have on our natural lives (hint: rhymes with 'beth'). The first two line appear to be about sitting and thinking about what you'll do with your days, and yet failing to rush headlong into a great cause. "I'm left with fences" indicates sitting on the proverbial fence of indecisiveness.
It keeps talking about time passing and the inevitable point where you run out of time. "I smell the stench, unavoidable" seems to be about smelling the stench of death and the grave and knowing that each moment is getting you closer to it. "That this side equates with what awaits" seems to mean that what we do on this side of life, or on this side of the veil, in the physical, before we die and pass into the spiritual, translates into the next life. (Let us please put to death this myth that believing in an afterlife causes people to "focus only on that life" to the neglect of the here and now. On the contrary, believing that what we do here has consequences later gives even greater importance to our actions now.)
The rest of the song seems to be about forgetting about the time that was already wasted (you can't do anything about it now so don't worry about it), prioritizing what you do because you don't have all the time in the world, and pushing yourself like hell to make great progress while you still can.
I think your explanation is pretty much right on. There are also lines like “Say hello to my end....”, “today’s a good day to die” that are talking about your old self dying and your new self being born when a person gives themselves to Christ. “I know what awaits my fate..” (referring to knowing where he’s going when his earthly body dies and spirit as ends into heaven, for eternity) There is also at least one reference...”I scrape to win a new day to waste”....to what amounts to our human nature fighting the sacrifice that it takes to truly serve The Almighty.
The last part of this song is missing from the entry.
Anyway, the song seems clearly to be about the time limit we all have on our natural lives (hint: rhymes with 'beth'). The first two line appear to be about sitting and thinking about what you'll do with your days, and yet failing to rush headlong into a great cause. "I'm left with fences" indicates sitting on the proverbial fence of indecisiveness. It keeps talking about time passing and the inevitable point where you run out of time. "I smell the stench, unavoidable" seems to be about smelling the stench of death and the grave and knowing that each moment is getting you closer to it. "That this side equates with what awaits" seems to mean that what we do on this side of life, or on this side of the veil, in the physical, before we die and pass into the spiritual, translates into the next life. (Let us please put to death this myth that believing in an afterlife causes people to "focus only on that life" to the neglect of the here and now. On the contrary, believing that what we do here has consequences later gives even greater importance to our actions now.)
The rest of the song seems to be about forgetting about the time that was already wasted (you can't do anything about it now so don't worry about it), prioritizing what you do because you don't have all the time in the world, and pushing yourself like hell to make great progress while you still can.
@thrustae,
@thrustae,
I think your explanation is pretty much right on. There are also lines like “Say hello to my end....”, “today’s a good day to die” that are talking about your old self dying and your new self being born when a person gives themselves to Christ. “I know what awaits my fate..” (referring to knowing where he’s going when his earthly body dies and spirit as ends into heaven, for eternity) There is also at least one reference...”I scrape to win a new day to waste”....to what amounts to our human nature fighting the sacrifice that it takes to truly serve The Almighty.